I have this problem but it doesn't appear to be a link problem. Running rdate corrects the date & time so I would assume that the right timezone was set when I installed Mandrake 8.1.
At 04:26 PM 1/6/2002 -0700, Darcy Brodie wrote: >Mark > I ran into a simular problem with my LM80 install. I found a link >from /etc/localtime to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST I deleted the original >link, and re-created the link to the correct timezone, and it has been >fine for sometime now (I believe that was about 14 months ago) > >Darcy > >Mark Chou wrote: > >> I must be missing something obvious, but I'm at my wits end. >> >> My hardware clock (in BIOS) is set to local time. When system boots >> up, it says "Setting clock (localtime) : Correct_date Correct_time >> *PST*. (I live on the west coast in US). "hwclock -r --localtime" >> shows correct time, and "date" shows correct time (PST). >> >> They system runs for an hour or so. I type "date" on command line. >> It shows an exact integer difference of 9 hours behind the hwclock, >> i.e "date" gives hwclock time-9 hours *PST*. I look at my logs, and >> it doesn't say anything about the system time being reset. >> >> I use linuxconf, MCC, and hwclock to change system clock back to >> correct hwclock time, but this pattern repeats itself. If I don't >> change the sytem time, on subsequent reboot, rc.sysinit says "Setting >> clock (localtime): bad_date bad_time *UTC*." I've even tried deleting >> /etc/adjtime, but this doesn't work either. >> >> What's going on here and how do I go about solving this? (And please >> don't suggest NTP!) >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> >> /etc/sysconfig/clock: >> ARC=false >> UTC=false >> ZONE=US/Pacific >> >> diff >> >/etc/localtime==/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific==/usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/ >PDT8PST >> >> I'm using MDK 8.0, with latest official updates (kernel-2.4.8-31.2mdk >> and glibc-2.2.2-6.1mdk) >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com >> >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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